Yes - in the interests of the populace.

The notion that only legislative branch represents the citizenry is bullshit. They are all supposed to represent us, just in different aspects (largely to prevent them from colluding).

I run Steam on my 8-inch Asus VivoTab, which has similar hardware. Obviously you won't be playing Crysis on those, but there are plenty of indie or old games that run great. I play Age of Wonders (the original one from 1999) on mine - works surprisingly well with the stylus.

So far as I can see, the Stream laptop is a netbook by any definition of the word.

This has not been true since Clover Trail.

Since Win8, Windows has DPI scaling on the desktop that actually works (actually it was mostly working in Win7 already, but 8 and 8.1 polished it further).

Surface, in particular, scales everything to 150% by default, if I remember correctly. The text on mine is about the same size as on the desktop. Of course, this means that not quite as many things fit, so some people manually change the setting back to 100%, making everything tiny, but fitting more onto the screen. That guy whom you know must have done that.

You can always buy it in Oregon.

ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES!

If you have actually looked at the screenshots, this is a major backtracking from "one size fits all" as exemplified by Win8.

Tiles in the desktop case are not so much for launching as for widget-like functionality - presenting data at a glance. If you don't need them, you can just remove them all and end up with a clean Start menu that just has the app list.

Windows 8 was unified experience for all devices, so long as by "unified" you meant "behaves like a tablet".

This is an unified experience in a sense of the same app running on all platforms from phone to tablet to desktop, and with some UI notions that are meaningful across all devices working everywhere (e.g. a live tile behaves the same on phone/tablet start screen, or in the desktop start menu), while also recognizing that, no, not every device is a tablet, and so many things have to be tailored to the device in question - such as the return of Start menu, and the ability to run store apps in windows, on the desktop.

Yes, terseness. Have you heard of this fancy thing called "aliases"? Powershell has quite a few out of the box. For example, "Get-ChildItem" is aliased to... "ls". And "Set-Location" is aliased to "cd". And "Get-Helped" is aliased to "man". And aliases work everywhere, so "man ls" works exactly as you'd expect it to.

On the other hand, when you have no clue of what a particular command might be to do something that you need done, your chances of guessing it in PSh are much higher, because the canonical names are descriptive rather than terse.

Who fucking cares about biology here, we're talking about cool things like zombies. YEAH, ZOMBIES!!!1!

Yes, it's the spec's fault, because it sets up the user for silent but catastrophic failure, doing something that is not in any obvious way related to the problem.

Even if it does, you're basically allowing the introduction of functions into the scope of your script with both names and bodies defined completely by untrusted input. It's insane.

Wow. And reviews cite "cheap material" and "wears out quickly", at that.

The next obvious question is, why are these guys and their ilk still in business, with price gouging like that?